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Title: Methane Venting from East Siberian Arctic Shelf Post by: roadrunner on March 08, 2010, 05:15:06 PM http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5970/1246 (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5970/1246)
Quote Remobilization to the atmosphere of only a small fraction of the methane held in East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) sediments could trigger abrupt climate warming. Here, we show that more than 5000 at-sea observations of dissolved methane demonstrates that greater than 80% of ESAS bottom waters and greater than 50% of surface waters are supersaturated with methane regarding to the atmosphere, which is on par with previous estimates of methane venting from the entire World Ocean. Title: Re: Methane Venting from East Siberian Arctic Shelf Post by: DennisS on March 08, 2010, 08:43:55 PM This means we need to burn more methane in power generation plants, for heating, etc? Otherwise it's just going to waste?
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